Pete Frates, baseball player and inspiration for ice bucket challenge, dies at 34
- Former baseball player helped spread of charity drive
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Pete Frates, a former college baseball player whose battle with motor neuron disease helped inspire the ice bucket challenge, has died at the age of 34. His family confirmed he had died on Monday. “Today heaven received our angel,” read a family statement.
The ice bucket challenge began in 2014 when professional golfer Chris Kennedy challenged his wife’s cousin Jeanette Senerchia, whose husband has motor neuron disease, also known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Lou Gehrig’s disease after the New York Yankees great who suffered from it. ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that leads to paralysis due to the death of motor neurons in the spinal cord and brain. There is no known cure.
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